Clinical case of 5% schistocytes in a postpartum blood smear: differential diagnosis of TMA, atypical HUS, TTP, and HELLP syndrome.
🔬 Schistocytes in peripheral blood (5%) in a woman after operative delivery at 41 weeks. Postpartum thrombotic microangiopathy with kidney and liver involvement. Differential diagnosis of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, HELLP syndrome.
🙏 The clinical case was kindly provided by laboratory physician Yulia Kaliberda, Ekaterinburg.
A clinical case of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in a patient with SLE: schistocytes in a blood smear, thrombocytopenia, and high reticulocyte count.
A case of severe poikilocytosis in an ICU patient: schistocytes, normoblasts, and erythrocyte fragmentation (dumbbell and rod shapes) in a blood smear.
Blood smear morphology in Evans Syndrome: severe hemolysis, polychromasia, basophilic stippling, Howell-Jolly bodies, and normoblasts in peripheral blood.
